more on -er (UNCLASSIFIED)

[victor steinbok]

It's science as sausage making, but there is nothing in those emails
that's supportive of the arguments of global-warming deniers (not the
same kind of -er). But that has not stopped people from making wild
accusations ranging from groupthink to stacking the deck to "crimes".

VS-)

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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>> To take this in a somewhat different direction (tooting my own horn,
>> in a way, I suppose), I am wondering if anyone's picked up on the fact
>> that the conservative blogosphere (and Fox News with it, of course)
>> has dubbed the East Anglia email swipe as "climategate". What's
>> interesting about it is that the controversy supposedly attached to
>> this "-gate" is imagined, but that's not the first time a fictitious
>> controversy has received a "-gate" suffix.
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> Just curious -- In what way is the controversy "imagined" or
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